Have you seen life?

It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so deeply

[youseeusy]

[quotemadness]

“To love your own sadness as if it were something more precious than gold is what it means to be a melancholic person. Melancholy is the intimate nature you have with your sorrow. Melancholy is the enlightenment you experience when it comes to being lost.”

— Juansen Dizon

[quotemadness]

“It’s easy to know who I am when I am at peace with my sadness.”

— Juansen Dizon

[arcaneastrophile]

illicit affairs and clandestine meetings.

[perfectquote]

“Let’s raise children who won’t have to recover from their childhoods.”

— Pam Leo

[dailykafka]

— March 13, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[stay-close]

“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

[quotefeeling]

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”

— Unknown

[leonardospoetry]

Some chapters of life don’t actually have an apparent ending. They just fade away silently.

It’s a strange feeling to look back at the past sometimes and see how some parts of life have simply dissolved into nothingness. And even though this poem might sound sad, I believe that being mindful of the transience of life actually helps us to feel all the preciousness and beauty of it.

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Stream of Life.”

[llovelymoonn]

ainslie hogarth motherthing

kofi

[flowerytale]

Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

[weltenwellen]

Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: text which reads, “I, too, have been losing my gentleness since the first young wound.” end text. End ID.]

[firstfullmoon]

you know, absolutely